Hi, I'm really proud to announce the availability of the autopano engine v2.5 in release candidate.

First, one good news : we have finished an internal work to setup a fully automatic building system.It works well and this release has been made with that system. So new releases are now automatically done It will be possible to make new releases every week if needed ( we now concentrate on the code, not the build anymore ). BTW : we are wondering about nightly builds too. Would you be interested into that ?

So to be able to setup that build system, we did a huge job before making this version public. There were a lot of small fixes but also big one everywhere. Let's highlight some of them :

- NEW : Small UI revamp : a new icon in main window to call directly the import plugin - NEW : Blending mode 'None' reintroduced ( to be able to make rendering without any blending ) - IMPROVED : Color correction improved ( HDR output mode fixed )- IMPROVED : Gigapan import cleaned. It works perfectly on all cases here- IMPROVED : Papywizard improvement : a new option to prevent the use of wrong roll value in the xml file - IMPROVED : PSD/PSB output improved : we put back the panorama and the images in the right order- FIX : Batch rendering : progress bar on final write- FIX : Quick optim / Global optim icon : better handling of them. It helps a lot for gigapixels panoramas- FIX : Linux version, it's really nice to look at the software on linux- fixes everywhere !- Package for translator are ready for all languages ( translator will be contacted soon )

What's next ?

=> Final release ( or perhaps a RC2 if needed. As I said in the introduction, it's now easy to do )

first thanks for this big step forward. congratulations for you efforts and also thanks for being patient listensing on our never ending bug reports and feature requests!

BTW : we are wondering about nightly builds too. Would you be interested into that ?

personal I would vote for a weekly build.

minimizes the stress to check before every posting if I'm using latest possible version and will also reduce the standardquestion before answering a forum question did you us the latest possible version.raises the containing number of changes of each build...

But it looks like that there is something wrong with the Windows installers: I downloaded Autopano Pro x64 RC and installed it. After that I have a "Kolor Autopano Pro 2.5" icon on my desktop but with the blue Autopano Giga logo. Also when I start the program the splash screen says Autopano Giga and I cannot use my Autopano Pro license key to activate it?

Many thanks Alexandre,AutoPano has liberated my photographic muse in a massive way. I moved to work in the French Alps this month and really look forward to exploring the region for the next five months. Impossible to move forward without your great teams creative platform Autopano rocks!!

What you see in the preview when using Exposure Fusion Settings is now what you get in the rendered pano. Like all of the many "WYSIWYG improvements" since the beginning of Autopano [sup] this is super [/sup] making it much more easier to use!

AlexandreJ wrote:BTW : we are wondering about nightly builds too. Would you be interested into that ?

I recommend that you do nightly builds, and run your full QA suite against all of the versions. By doing this, if the QA finds an unexpected error you have only one day's updates to examine to determine the cause of the regression.

BTW : we found out that all win32 are really broken compared to x64 version as soon as you use lens distortion. That explain why RC2 is late. But we are today in internal testing ( meaning, the version is ready and we are testing it ). If everything is okay, we can launch it tomorrow.